Programme of Events th Day 1 Friday, 13​ July​ 2018 (Khalili Lecture Theatre) 9:00 - 10:00 Registration/ Introductions 10:00-11:00 Keynote 1 Dr Analyn Salvador-Amores 11:00 -11:15 Coffee Break Session 1 11:15 - 11:45 (1)* The Origins Of The Word “Igorot” (1575-2018) ​Maria Carmen Domingo-Kirk Of Two Minds: Mainstream and Indigenous Elite Representation of the 11:45 - 12:15 (2) Igorots in the Philippines Villia Jefremovas Gazing Upon the Other: The Politics of Representing the Igorot in Philippine 12:15- 12:45 (3) Modernism ​ ​Caroline Rose Tacata Baicy 12:45-1:45 Lunch Session 2 1:45-2:15 (4 ) Traces of the Hudhud Epic of the Itkak people in Ifugao, Philippines ​ ​Sergei B. Klimenko 2:15-2:45 (5) Contact-induced Linguistic Change in the Cordilleras: Languages of Prestige ​Anthony Grant *Paper Readers (numbered in sequence from 1-15) are given 30 minutes each. Ideally, the presentation should be a maximum of 20 minutes with 10 minutes for responses and questions. There are no break-out sessions. 2:45-3:15 (6) Miscellaneous Assemblages: An overview of the Philippine collections in the Horniman Museum ​ ​Fiona Kerlogue 3:15- 4:00 Networking/ Brief Intro to Philippine Studies at SOAS/Coffee Break Session 3 4:00-4:30 (7) Revisiting Ethno-historical Events and Issues in Benguet Cordillera History ​ June Chayapan Prill-Brett 4:30-5:00 (8) Head-hunters Under The Stars And Stripes: Revisiting Colonial Historiography ​Richard G. Scheerer, M.D​. Short Films 5:00-6:00 "Dugo at Tinta" (Blood + Ink)​ Jill Damatac Futter (15 minutes) "Am-Amma" (The Heirloom), ​Dexter Macaraeg (20 minutes) Music in the Life of Balbalasang ​Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes (annotated 16 minutes) 6:00 -7:30 Book launch and panel on Appropriating the Igorot in Fiction ​Candy Gourlay 7:30 - 9:00 Wine Reception and Nibbles th ​ DAY 2 I Saturday, 14​ July 2018 (Khalili Lecture Theatre/Precinct) Keynote 2 10:00-11:00 ​Dr Deirdre McKay 11:00-11:15 Coffee break Session 4 11:15 -11:45 (9) The Creation of Igorot Identity by Episcopalian Missionaries, 1901-1918 ​ Jason Ratcliffe Erasures in History: Bakla and Minamagkit Narratives and the anti-Chico 11:45 -12:15 (10) River Dam Struggle Jennifer C. Josef Spaces of Resistance: Exploring the Socio-Economic Dimension of the 12:15 - 12:45 (11) Mt.Data Peace Accord through Cordillera's Binudngan Communities ​ ​Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez 12:45-1:45 Lunch Session 5 1:45 - 2:15 (12) (Re)Situating Representation in Ifugao Material Culture: Performing Cordillera Identity Across Media B. Lynne Milgram 2:15 - 2:45 (13) Igorotak ed UK: Indigenous Identity Performance in Diaspora Ruth M. Tindaan 2:45-3:00 Coffee Break Session 6 3:00 - 4:30 Short Films Baki ​Paul Nicholas Soriano and Krizza Pacleb (20 minutes) A Kalinga Wedding​ Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes (2015, 26 minutes) Annotated Screening of Walang Rape sa Bontoc (20 minutes) with Panel Respondents ​Dr Analyn Amores and Dr Deirdre Mackay 4:30 - 5:30 Workshop: The Igorot Dance: Principles and Concepts Mark​ ​Sapaen Watan ( KLT/ Room L67 for Hands-on Session) 5:30 - 6: 30 Book Launch of ​ Ili ​Tommy Hafalla and RJ Fernandez 6:30 - 9:30 Cordiĺlera traditional dances and songs By : IGOROT UK Dance Troupe Dinner at the Precinct ONGOING EXHIBITS (2 days) KLT Foyer Curated Objects on loan from the Diaspora TABLE EXHIBITS 1) Tattoo (Museo Kordilyera) 2) Bone Talk (Candy Gourlay’s new book) 3) Iglot (Modern Fabric) 4) Illi (Tom Hafalla and RJ Fernandez) 5) DIFFERENCE and DEFERENCE: Referencing Philippine Cordillera Material Culture in the Contemporary Articulation of Lowland Crafts 6) Archipelago of Care plus Curating exhibit ( Deirdre Mckay) 7) Igorot UK Speaker Bios Dr Analyn ​Salvador-Amores​ ​is a social anthropologist and associate professor at the College of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Baguio, and currently the Director of the Museo Kordilyera, UP Baguio's Ethnographic Museum. She earned her masters and doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Oxford University. Dr. Salvador-Amores’ research interests include non-western aesthetics, endangered languages, material culture and visual anthropology. She has published journal articles on the material culture of the Igorots that breaks new ground in the study of Philippine indigenous culture. Included in her work is the comprehensive and significant work on Kalinga tattooing published by the University of the Philippines Press, Tapping Ink, Tattooing Identities: Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Kalinga Society (2013). The book is the 2014 Elfren S. Cruz Price for Best Book in the Social Sciences in the 33rd National Book Awards conferred by National Book Development Board and the Manila Critics Circle and the 2016 Outstanding Book in the Social Sciences by the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST). Dr Maria Carmen Domingo-Kirk​ is a Research Affiliate at the Research Affiliate Cordillera Studies Center. She has an MA American Cultural Anthropology and Folklore from the University of California Berkeley and a Doctorate in Bilingual Multicultural Education from the University of the Philippines Diliman. She was a Fulbright Grantee for Curriculum Development in India and was a US Federal Government Title V11 Fellow at the University of San Francisco. Dr Villia Jefremovas​ is the Canada Research Chair in Development and Social Change at the Development Studies Program, Queen's University. She is a graduate of the York University (1980), and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from University of Toronto (1980, 1993).During her academic career, Dr. Jefremovas has carried out four major fieldwork projects, one in Rwanda in Africa and three with an indigenous community, the Igorots, in Southeast Asia, publishing extensively on this work, most notable is her book, Brickyards to Graveyards: From Production to Genocide in Rwanda (SUNY, 2003). Caroline Tacata Baicy​ is an incoming PhD student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She received the Master’s degree in Art History from the same institution, in which her thesis focussed on the development of the Philippine “Other” and its relationship to the introduction of Modernism and Primitivist visual language in the Philippines. She has previously worked at the Centre of Philippine Studies, assisting a faculty specialist in a USIP funded grant; as well as the Honolulu Museum of Art, in which she researched the Philippine collection. Her research interests predominantly focuses on the politics of representation and ethnic identity within the Philippines as well as the de-centring of the narrative of Philippine art and culture. Sergei Borisovich Klimenko​ ​graduated with BA in Oriental and African Studies (Tagalog Philology) from Saint Petersburg State University in 2009 and with MA in Linguistics from the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines, Diliman in 2012. In September, 2017, he defended his PhD thesis "The Voice Category in Philippine Languages (A Case Study of the Yattuka Language)". Currently, he is a junior researcher at the Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg since October, 2016, focusing on morphosyntax and semantics of Philippine languages (mainly Tagalog and Cordilleran languages), and Ifugao epic language studies. Dr Anthony P. Grant​ ​has been Professor of Historical Linguistics and Language Contact at Edge Hill University since 2008, and is editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Language Contact. His research specialises in cases of intimate language contact, with special attention paid to cases within Austronesian, and in issues in genealogical linguistics, with an allied interest in the ethics and techniques of documentary linguistics. Dr Fiona Kerlogue​ is the Deputy Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum with responsibility for the Asian and European collections. She has a doctorate in anthropology at the Centre for South-East Asian Studies at the University of Hull. She has undertaken research in Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia and is the author of ‘The Arts of Southeast Asia’ (Thames and Hudson 2004). She is currently working on a joint research project exploring Indonesian collections at the National Museum, Prague. Dr June Chayapan Prill-Brett​ is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of the Philippines Baguio. She wrote Pechen: The Bontok Peace Pact Institution in 1987. She was also the Director the Cordillera Studies Center, the research arm of UP Baguio, from 1988 to 1990. Richard G Scheerer, M.D.​ is a Research Affiliate at the Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio. He is a Doctor of Medicine but has research interests in the Cordilleras. He is writing a biography of his grandfather, Otto Johns Scheerer, who was a resident of Baguio during the transition between Spanish, briefly Philippine then American rule. His research output on the Cordillera includes the paper “Participant Observation in Linguistics: Otto Scheerer and The Nabaloi Dialect” presented at the 2nd International Conference on Cordillera Studies, 2017. Candy Gourlay​ ​ is a Filipino author based in London. Her novels – all set in the Philippines – have been listed for many prizes including the Waterstones, Blue Peter, the Carnegie and the Guardian Prize. Bone Talk, set in the Cordillera in 1899, is her third novel. Dr Deirdre McKay​ is ​Reader in Social Geography and Environmental Politics at Keele University. Her research draws on both social/cultural geography and social anthropology to explore people's place-based experiences of globalisation and development. Much of her work has been conducted with people who originate in indigenous villages in the northern Philippines. Empirically, she is interested in the long-distance relations that connect out migrants to their sending communities, changes in local livelihoods and the possibilities for locally sustainable, alternative economic development, and environmental degradation linked to migration as well as the kinds of social networks and relationships they build through migration.